Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aphrodite who led us on. For starters, according to one account, she was created from the genitals of the god Uranus, who had been hurled, dismembered, into the sea by his ill-tempered son Cronus. Her husband was Hephaestus, blacksmith to the gods and the ugliest fellow in the pantheon. This may explain why Aphrodite lost no time in fooling around with squads of other gods and not a few surprised mortals, among them an obscure shepherd or two. It is no wonder that Aphrodite should continue to be so seductive even to this day. Underachieving, oversexed...
...Impossible Dream, the black-and-white and good-and-evil of modern legend become shades of gray and swirls of clashing colors. Corazon Aquino may be a housewife in Burton's account, but she is far from naive. Her husband appears with little of the sanctity he has assumed since his martyrdom. To many & Filipinos, Burton notes, "Ninoy" Aquino and Marcos were merely two sides of the same coin. Yet, ultimately, Ninoy is a sainted Machiavellian. Scheming and plotting, he returns from self-exile in the U.S., a gambler going for broke. His last courageous bet: that Filipinos are worth...
...Sammataro-Hutchinses would love to keep up with the Joneses. "Forms aren't long enough to accommodate my whole name," says Debra Sammataro- Hutchins, who owns a children's clothing store in Melrose, Mass. Says her husband Robert: "My credit cards have me as Sammataro Hut. When I try to sign a check, I run out of room." The family's insurance reimbursements are bogged down because records do not match. The couple have to maintain an extra listing in the phone book so their children's friends can find them under Hutchins. "Ten years ago, when I married...
...show with such guests as Malcolm Forbes, Henry Kissinger and Phil Donahue. Dick Cavett has been signed as host of another nightly interview program; his first week's guests will include Jimmy Breslin and Linda Ellerbee. Also on the after-business-hours schedule: Smart Money, a consumer show with husband-wife authors Ken and Daria Dolan as hosts, and Media Beat, a program on media business. Weekend fare will go even further afield, including a Sunday-morning children's show...
That being so, Imelda told a Philippine newspaper, should her husband pass away she will have his body embalmed and put on display in Hawaii as a political statement and "an international spectacle." There it would remain until 1992, the next presidential-election year. Then, under a presumably more lenient regime, she would take his remains home, have them cremated and scatter his ashes over the Philippines, she says, "to fertilize his country...